About Samuel Edward Cook
Lived 1787 – 1856 (aged 68–69). Samuel Edward Cook was a writer and naval officer.
Samuel Edward Widdrington (né Cook; 178711 January 1856) was an English writer and naval officer.
Life In 1840, he took the name of Widdrington, his mother being the heiress of some of the estates of that family. Having served in the Royal Navy he lived for some years in Spain, writing Sketches in Spain during the years 1829-1832 (London, 1834), and Spain and the Spaniards in 1843 (London, 1844). In 1842 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He served as High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1854. He died at his residence, Newton Hall, Northumberland, in January 1856 and was succeeded in the ownership of his estates by his nephew, Shalcross Fitzherbert Jacson, who took the name Widdrington.
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British writer (1787-1856)
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